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Originally Posted by neilwilkes  @ danijel.
BeSweet is a reverse engineered hack. It cannot reliably produce properly DVD compliant output. Period. This is *not* free technology, it is licensed. |
You're right - I just found out - AC3 has patents built in, and ac3enc (what BeSweet uses) is not legal for commercial use:
How legal is ac3enc.dll [Archive] - Doom9's Forum
I obviously didn't understand the info at the Dolby site - I thought that the only advantage of signing a TM agreement and using an approved encoder over a hacked one is that you can use their logo in print and trailer on the DVD. As it turns out, signing TMA is the only way to produce a commercial DVD with AC3.
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Originally Posted by neilwilkes And to be brutally honest with you, if you have no idea what the Dolby Logo licensing is then you should not be creating DVD Video discs for sale & replication.
And you should not legally be using any mention of Dolby Digital on your packaging either.
Go read all about it at Dolby Labs website. You are looking for the TMA agreements. I will not give links, consider it a research job that should have already been done  |
I said I can't find anything on this 'Dolby Labs logo testing' that you mention, not Logo licensing or TMA.
Neil, I highly appreciate your input - I'm aware you're an expert on encoding technologies, and have read many of your posts in different places on the net. After all, if there wasn't for your post, I would potentially be in legal problem with BeSweet (although, I don't encode myself for the past couple of years). But I have to say that your response sounded hostile ('brutally honest', 'if you have no idea', 'go read' etc). However, no offense taken, as this is really not your usual tone, and everyone can get nervous from time to time.
Looking forward to further corrections on your part, should I unintentionally give out incorrect info in the future.